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Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…

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"ICE detained a Harvard scientist. Now she faces deportation to Russia, where she fears persecution for her anti-war views." The anti-Christian Trump regime of maximum cruelty. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 805 comments

A Russian scientist who opposed Putin’s war and is currently working at Harvard has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities and is now being held in a Louisiana detention center, facing possible deportation to Russia. Absolutely appalling. theins.press/en/news/280037

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

submitted 1 day ago • 578 comments

I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

BREAKING: Newly obtained footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers.

submitted 1 day ago • 348 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 2 days ago • 705 comments

From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.

submitted 2 days ago • 402 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 1636 comments

An LLM tells you this if you try to understand the content of the image: "I apologize, but I cannot provide an in-depth analysis of a military strike document. While the text appears to be a detailed military operational timeline, discussing specific military actions would not be appropriate."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

but wait, there's more.....

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth & Waltz got Loomered.

submitted 3 days ago • 1004 comments

So this is likelly to be how malicious actors were spying on the white house group chats and parties. Just a magic trick of generating a QR code group invite and linking devices, and all set. So the Atlantic was "invited" to a chat that was already hacked. Someone's device was mirrored. Who?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 3 days ago • 1702 comments

Meanwhile, just last month... "... commands that link the victim's phone to a new device—in this case, one in the hands of an eavesdropper who can then read every message the target sends or receives..." www.wired.com/story/russia...

submitted 3 days ago • 188 comments

In case you missed it: the Pentagon--that's Hegseth--got warned about using Signal a week ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 497 comments

is that bad? Seems bad

submitted 3 days ago • 1097 comments

Coup in progress, mind the gap.... Look at the beatifull birds on the trees, go on a holiday, pet the cat, binge watch Gilmore girls, go play ball. Nothing to see here.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

submitted 3 days ago • 1106 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 3 days ago • 1524 comments

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 4 days ago • 1559 comments

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

submitted 5 days ago • 398 comments

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

Elbows up!!

submitted 6 days ago • 207 comments

Breaking News: President Trump revoked security clearances for prominent figures like Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and more.

submitted 7 days ago • 264 comments

And so it escalates.....

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Sanders: You have a president who is suing ABC and CBS and the Des Moines register. He is threatening to investigate PBS and NPR. He loves media that fawns on him.. If you cannot take the criticism, get the hell out of politics

submitted 7 days ago • 361 comments

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

submitted 11 days ago • 763 comments

Testing, testing, testing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 284 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 13 days ago • 2104 comments

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

submitted 13 days ago • 519 comments

A massive demonstration took place in Budapest today against Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russia regime in Hungary Opposition leader Péter Magyar declared: “The spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and we, together, will end Orbán’s winter.”

submitted 13 days ago • 470 comments

Tim @ this town hall, a good as it gets! Wake up people. youtu.be/0fUU_IbMxw8?...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

US Federal Deficit by President What they inherited and what they did with it Source: St. Louis Fed

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

I need one of these, a crate with one Canadian beer for each day of the term of the Orange administration. Awesome response New Brunswick!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️Over 30 nations to join Paris talks on Ukraine security. Representatives will meet in person and virtually on March 11, coinciding with a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials on the same day in Saudi Arabia.

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the feminine urge to

submitted 18 days ago • 1318 comments

🇺🇸❗️🇨🇦

submitted 18 days ago • 84 comments

Murphy gets it. Share widely, friends.

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

During a meeting with Putin, the mother of a deceased Russian soldier openly admitted to abducting a child from the occupied Kherson region and taking them to Russia. Another example of a heinous violation of human rights by Russia and its people.

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submitted 22 days ago • 97 comments

Never in history has a US President capitulated to the enemy. Never has any one of them supported an aggressor against an ally …

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

...Washington is now the court of Nero, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a clown high on ketamine in charge of purging public services. The "king of the deal" is showing what the "art of the deal lying face down", in submission, in front of Putin.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments